Strong's Greek · G5331
G5331 pharmakeía
φαρμακεία
far-mak-i'-ah
sorcery
Looking for Hebrew H5331 netsach? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G5331. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
pharmakeía appears twice in Scripture, in Galatians 5:20 and Revelation 18:23. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version
sorcery, witchcraft
Derivation
from G5332 (φαρμακεύς);
Appears 2 times in Scripture
“idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,”
“The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
